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Quotes About Resilience

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
~ Diane Paulus
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
~ Edward Dahlberg
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
~ Lloyd Jones
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
~ Alan Moore
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
~ Gloria Steinem
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
~ Melissa Etheridge
In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.
~ Derek Ibbotson
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
~ Alexander Gordon Smith
Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
~ Chaim Weizmann
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
~ Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.
~ Dalai Lama
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
~ Gary Player
Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.
~ Molly Ivins
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
~ Bryce Courtenay
Freedom and independence is my character.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Injustice in the end produces independence.
~ Voltaire
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
~ Mike Tyson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
~ Voltaire
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
~ Tobias Smollett